Mika Taanila’s double projection film performance The Zone of Total Eclipse (2006, 6 min) is part of Audiovisuaalinen ilta, organized by Tulkinnanvaraista at Studio GNTV in Helsinki on Saturday March 23, 2024 at 19:00h. Tickets 5-30€.
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Failed Emptiness (2024)
January 1, 1970Failed Emptiness describes a three-week vacation in the middle of a heatwave. The protagonist prepares reports that begin to bother her more. The deeper she sinks into the report, the deeper she gets into herself.
Selected screenings:
IFFR Rotterdam 2024
Midnight Sun Film Festival, Sodankylä, Finland
European Film Festival Palić, Serbia
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A PHYSICAL RING installation at Zwei Tage Strom in Zurich ( )
April 18, 2024 - April 20, 2024The site-specific installation A Physical Ring (2002) by Mika Taanila is part of Zwei Tage Strom – Festival für elektronische Musik in Zurich between April 18-20, 2024. Music by Ø. Venue: Kunstaraum Walcheturm.
I MIGHT BE STUCK, FUTURE IS NOT WHAT IT USED TO BE, TECTONIC PLATE, OPTICAL SOUND, ROBOCUP99 and FUTURO – A NEW STANCE FOR TOMORROW at Zwei Tage Strom in Zurich ( )
April 18, 2024 - April 20, 2024Six films by Mika Taanila are screening at Zwei Tage Strom – Festival für elektronische Musik in Zurich between April 18-20, 2024.
Cinema performance I Might Be Stuck (2022, 30 min) is showing back-to-back with Future Is Not What It Used To Be (2002, 52 min) as the opening event of the festival on Thursday April 18th.
Camera-less feature Tectonic Plate (2016, 74 min) screens on Friday April 19th.
Shorts films Optical Sound, RoboCup99 and Futuro – A News Stance for Tomorrow show as a combined program on Saturday April 20th.
All screenings take place at Filmpodium Zurich.
MY SILENCE at Tampere Film Festival ( )
March 6, 2024 - March 10, 2024My Silence (Mika Taanila, 2013, 13 min) is screening at Tampere Film Festival on Friday, March 8, 2024 as part of a carte blanche program by Iiti Yli-Harja.
MONICA IN THE SOUTH SEAS at Tampere Film Festival ( )
March 6, 2024 - March 10, 2024The feature doc Monica in the South Seas (dir. Sami van Ingen & Mika Taanila, 2023) is screening at Tampere Film Festival on Sunday, March 10, 2024 back-to-back with Moana with Sound (dir. Robert Flaherty, Frances Flaherty, Monica Flaherty (1926/1980).
FAILED EMPTINESS at IFFR Rotterdam ( )
January 25, 2024 - February 4, 2024Feature film Failed Emptiness (2024, 66 min) will have its world premiere at International Film Festival Rotterdam on Saturday, January 27th, 2024. The film is screening in program section Harbour.
Original title: Epäonnistunut tyhjyys
Producers: Mika Taanila, Jussi Eerola
Production Company: Elokuvayhtiö Testifilmi
Screenplay: Harry Salmenniemi
Cinematography: Jussi Eerola
Sound and music: Nika Son
Music: Klara Lewis
Cast: Ariane Tretow
| Booking | Date | Time | Location | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Failed Emptiness | 27 Jan 2024 | 20:30 | Pathé 2 | Public |
| Failed Emptiness | 28 Jan 2024 | 15:45 | Pathé 7 | Public |
| Failed Emptiness | 3 Feb 2024 | 18:00 | Pathé 3 | Public |
MUSIC PROMOS (1991)
January 1, 1970- Kauko Röyhkä: Kevät (1991)
- 22-Pistepirkko: Birdy (1993)
- Circle: Kyberia (1994)
- 22-Pistepirkko: (Just a) Little Bit More (1994)
- Circle: Surrounding (1995)
- Kauko Röyhkä: Kanerva (1995)
- 22-Pistepirkko: Don’t Say I’m So Evil (remix) (1996)
- Larry & The Lefthanded: No Man’s Land (1998)
- Circle: Back To Pori (1999)
- 22-Pistepirkko: This Time (2001)
- Oric: Via Baltica Road Trip (2020)
- Richard Dawson & Circle: Lily (2021)
MONICA IN THE SOUTH SEAS (2023)
January 1, 1970Synopsis
July 1975. Monica Flaherty, daughter of Robert and Francis Flaherty, cinéma vérité pioneer Richard Leacock and Sarah Hudson – Ricky’s student at MIT –travel to Samoa, to the island of Savai ́i. Monica’s aim is to create ”an authentic” sound version of the silent feature film Moana (1926), directed by her parents in her childhood paradise. Being alien to Samoan culture, Monica, Sarah and Ricky are soon pulled in a complex dynamics of gifts, exchange and honoring.
DocPoint Yle Award for Best Finnish Documentary Film in 2023
International Film Festival Rotterdam, January 2023
Göteborg Film Festival, February 2023
Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival, March 2023
Centre Pompidou, Paris, May 2023
Midnight Sun Film Festival, Finland, June 2023
Il Cinema Ritrovato, Bologna, June 2023
DocLisboa, October 2023
